Last summer I had the great pleasure of attending the Sozopol Fiction Seminar, an annual program sponsored by the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation that brings together five writers working in English and five working in Bulgarian, as well as editors, publishers,…

Dear Vagabond,Beautiful Issue 101! I enjoyed your photos of Sofia under snow (no snow in Berlin, alas), the impressive research on Kolyu Ficheto (I had seen some of his work in and around Veliko Tarnovo but did not know that…

I own a company called Bansko Adventure Tours. During the past seven years I have been taking tours into the Rila and Pirin mountains using snowmobiles, Rangerovers and off-road buggies. During the summer, I spend time in the mountains learning…

As a Scot who left his country 22 years ago, has lived since then in nine countries, and now divides his time between a flat in Sofia and a house in the Carpathian mountains, I have an obvious interest in…

Me and specially my Bulgarian friends enjoy very much reading every issue of Vagabond, followed by sometimes strong discussions (depending on the quality of "angels' pee" that have been consumed). But it always ends with fun and wisdom, and a…

VAGABOND VIDEO

On 4 February 1997 President Petar Stoyanov, who had just taken Bulgaria by storm, finally brought political enemies together to agree on a settlement that would pull the country back from the brink of civil unrest.

Looking back at pictures from the time, he tells us how he took Bulgaria closer to the Western world and firmly on course for membership of the EU. Produced by www.mycentury.tv